The Grandmaster

How could something that is so gorgeous also be so damn dull? Well, where there's a will, there's a Wong Kar Wai.The jazzy, experimental arthouse darling of the 1990s ('Chunking Express,' 'Fallen Angels,' 'Happy Together') fails to get out of his '2046'/'My Blueberry Nights' slump with 'The Grandmaster,' a strong contender for most boring picture of 2013. The version I saw is the Weinstein Company's “American Cut,” not to be confused with the homegrown successful “Chinese Cut” or the intermediary cut that played at festivals like Berlin.

http://youtu.be/B_OLP_1ei9MIt's been almost twenty years since Wong Kar Wai directed 1994's kung-fu epic 'Ashes of Time,' a film that nearly broke the filmmaker and sent him off to direct 'Chungking Express' in a flurry of creativity that helped create the Wong Kar Wai we know today. Though his post-production process on 'The Grandmaster' was almost as long, it didn't seem to cause a spin-off movie. Still, the trailer for 'The Grandmaster' looks amazing.